OVERDUE scrutinises past, ongoing and projected interventions in African sanitation, examining their political economy and socio-spatial configurations.
Situated sanitation experiences and practices
OVERDUE engages with the practices and experiences of women, men, girls and boys using and providing sanitation across grid and off-grid infrastructure.
Re-imagining sanitation futures
OVERDUE takes stock on ongoing experimentations towards equitable sanitation to foster dialogues and exchanges across colonial legacies and post-colonial situations in African cities.
From over 1 million residents, 0.3% are served by a 4 km long sewerage network. The rest use on-site facilities, 75% of these are unimproved pit latrines.
Beira – Mozambique
Over 500,000 residents, of which 90% are off-grid, and 10% connected to a 97 km sewerage network. Numerous on-site latrines and tanks were damaged by Cyclone Idai in 2019.
Mwanza – Tanzania
More than 1 million residents, with 23% connected to a sewer network. In informal settlements, a 5.4 km simplified sewerage system coexists with pit latrines and septic tanks.
